So Grateful for my Magical Transformation

Yes, this is the very tired Ford Ka that got me back and forth to the factory before I wrote the books.

My amazing Aston

After Becoming Magic

This is me in my actual car that taking action on Magical Inspiration brought into my life.

My Magical Transformation

"When you become magic anything is possible

all the time."

Now, I wake up every morning, summer and winter, to the sound of seagulls. I live so close to the sea that in the summer, seagulls nest on our roof. In the winter they shelter there from the harsh weather. I bought this house a couple of years ago and still, I can scarcely believe this house is actually mine, with its huge bright loft conversion looking out across the sea, its original Victorian oak floors and its cosy log burning stove. I live here with my partner, Mike and my two Siamese cats, Tiger Lily and Rumpelstiltskin. My son lives nearby with his partner and my tiny new-born granddaughter. My mother lives a short walk away. I have all my loved ones living within minutes of me.

I could sleep in till 11am if I wanted. But I never do. I do my best work at this time of day, and I can’t wait to get to the office. I am dressed and out the door in less than half an hour. I don’t need to drive to work, so I walk past my Aston Martin DB7 with a little smile. Its beauty never fails to take my breath away. As I walk down the street, the neighbours wish me a good morning. Such a safe and friendly community.

I have several different offices in which I can choose to work – all of them coffee shops. Today, I have chosen a local independent café, that serves the best almond croissants in the world. So, with a large Americano and an almond croissant, sitting at my favourite table, I open my laptop and start my working day.

I write every morning, weekends included, for three hours. This is the very best time of day for me. I’m writing, I have coffee and food, and all is well with the world. For those first three hours of the day, I am in paradise, in communion with something greater, with some great wisdom, and nothing can touch me.

Almost every day I feel overwhelmed with gratitude for the life I have created.

But it wasn’t always this way…

Just a few years ago...misery

Just a few years ago, I was in a very different situation indeed. I was single and overweight, the wrong side of forty, and living in a minuscule flat with a bedroom so small I could only fit a single bed in it. The light fittings were mostly broken, the shower and the oven didn’t work, and I had no carpet on the floor – just stick-on vinyl tiles onto the cold concrete underneath.

At this time, I was also horrendously in debt and working in a dead-end, unskilled job for minimum wage. My mornings started at 5am, when the blaring alarm would rudely interrupt my dreams. I’d rush out the door while it was still dark. I’d drive my beaten-up Ford Ka to my job at a factory, where I would pack boxes twelve hours a day, six days a week, for £6 an hour. I would drive home after twelve backbreaking hours, eat, and fall asleep. At 5am next morning it would start all over again. This was my life. I would spend my one day off alone, watching television, wrapped in a blanket to save on heating. I was overworked, exhausted, unhappy and desperately poor. And it seemed I was stuck in this life. Stuck, and getting older.

So what happened, what on earth did I do to effect this incredible turnaround?

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